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The Open Mind XIX

Dr. Ruth On Grandparenthood (#1922)

Dr. Ruth Westheimer joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss the responsibilities and joys of grandparenthood, the subject of her new book, about which she says, 'This is the book I have been waiting all my life to write.' [28 minutes]

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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros joins host Richard D. Heffner to elaborate upon his newest Atlantic Monthly (January 1998) charge that 'the benefits of the present global capitalist system can be sustained only by deliberate and persistent efforts to correct and contain the system deficiencies.' As Soros notes, 'Every society needs some shared values to hold it together. Market values on their own cannot serve that purpose . . . We can have a market economy but we cannot have a market society.' Part one of two. [28 minutes]

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros joins host Richard D. Heffner in the second of a two part series to discuss what personal imperatives and what sense of the nature of human nature inform the massive philanthropies he now engages in -- here at home and around the world. Part two of two. [28 minutes]

David Rabban, professor of law at the University of Texas in Austin, joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss his new book on Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years . . . namely, the half century before the first World War. [28 minutes]

Stephen L. Carter, Yale's noted William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss his intriguing new book Civility, which is also subtitled Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy.
[28 minutes]

Dr. Theodore Shapiro, Professor of Psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical College and head of child and adolescent psychiatry at Payne Whitney Clinic in New York Hospital, joins Richard D. Heffner to discuss the impact of entertainment violence on our youngsters. [28 minutes]

Helen Gurley Brown, long-time editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and best-selling author, joins host Richard D. Heffner to share the secrets of how to write and be published, as outlined in her new book, The Writer's Rules. [28 minutes]

Aryeh Neier, founder and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, former Executive Director of the ACLU and current President of the Soros Foundation and its Open Society Institute, joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss his new book, War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror and the Struggle for Justice.
[28 minutes]

Dr. Anne A. Paolucci, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss our national remediation problem: where and how to bring public college-bound students up to speed when their basic learning skills are not yet honed fine enough.
[28 minutes]

Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, M.D. of New York University's School of Medicine and Yale University's Child Study Center, joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss her compelling new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity, in which she shares her understanding of the minds of killers. [28 minutes]

Dr. Ruth Westheimer joins host Richard D. Heffner to discuss the responsibilities and joys of grandparenthood, the subject of her new book, about which she says, 'This is the book I have been waiting all my life to write.' [28 minutes]